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NOW IS THE TIME JO- VANCE PC2 AiTiSi lIIw5 C? SUBSCKIBE TOR JOB WOBK- The VilsonAdvance aETDTOCBCiDIXS LET AI4I1 THE ENDS THOU AIIR'ST AT, BE TUT COUIf TBY'S, THY GOD'S, AND TBUTIIS'.- FOR -1389; . to 7nxs orrxcr.- VOLUME 18. WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, JAN. 3, 1889. NUMBER 48 1 . a lii ! i . i i 11 1 a I t i 1 tjtt t ATJTVC! T 1?nnnxm luei 13 auJ pio-uo m tu wie sue uan aeip ner viuu nivi o JJU x x JLiix world where you can find iron -:o:- TI1E MONEY OF THE YAN KEE'S COMING SOUTH. The Unllownesa of What ts Called j !icietij. Give us Girls Who Are not Ashamed Jo Work. The question whether Georgia is prospsring or not eeeni9 lo be exciting attention and discussion in the legislature and the press. That is all right, ol course, but it is mortifying that such a question has been asked. The Very doubt implis- a sad state of affairs. If farms ing does not pay, how can it be tna.de to pay ? If it pays ' in Pennsylania, why hot in Geor gia ? A gentleman from west ern New York told men ot long ajo that it did not . pay there excpept in the vicinity of manu facturing towns, lie said there were more farms under mort gage thai farms that were not ; that the rich were getting rlchor and the poor poorer : that the farmer could not get enough for his products to pay the cost of production. That seems to be the trouble here in all cotton region. While one man in ten can make cottnn at seven cents a pound, five will make it at eUht and the other four at nine cents, aLd then sell it for seven and a quarter. Now, in 'the black belt, where negroes make the cotton, it does not so much concern the landlord whether it costs seven cents or ten : he "will get his rent a bale to fifteen acres anyhow. If the darky has nothing left he must live 1 on it, and he does. Ue can't get away, and so digs his taters and catches his 'possum and scuffles along and tries it. again another year. There are some poor white farmers in this highland region who get along in the same way. They have been poor and in debt so long they like it. "They are . lazy and shiftless and can't help it. They had rather fish all day for a cat or a sucker and not catch it than work In the miness for a silver dollar. But we wont count that sort. I am satisfied that our Bartow farmers, as a class, are pro spering but they have a great advantage over the cotton belt. They raise alltheir grain and most all their meat. You ' can find country hams in our stores most all the year round. Our merchants say their trade gets better every year, and that this year it is 25 per cent than the last. There is a general appearance of country thrift . better stock, better wagons and better implements. My tenant, Rowland, has a pair of better mules than he ever "had before, and has bought a new wagon and has a hunderd dollars loaned out I know that he is better off than ho was ever before. Most of' our farmers pay each as they go. There is a better demand for their tide crops their potatoes and turnips and cabbages and chickens and mechanical industries in our county. They are consumers and - the more consumers the better it is for the farmer. In Pennsylvania the farmer prosperous because they are in a. large minority only one-fourth of the popu lation are farmers and there are seventy five persons to buy and consume what twenty-five farm ers produce, it is the reverse in Georgia and the south, and A hence it is that farming lands in the Keystone state average according to the last census ( forty-nine dollars an acre and ours average four. A northern man told me that a smart "yankee farmer would get rich here on ten acres if he could sell what he makes at the price we are paying. I visited the new town of Emerson the other day just to see what Bartow county had in that direction, only five miles away. The town is on paper Vet mostly, but it won't be long, i'oi awhile I did not feel exact ly at home, for northern people have taken charge, and I did not know them and' they did not know me, and some of them cculd not talk to me for they were S wedes. They have quite a colony all the way from that - country that was the first to make iron. .1 used to sell Swedes iron forty-five years ago when I was a merchant's clerk, and it was considered the best iron in the world. These Swedes are in charge of a first-class man from their own country, and they have capital and are building their works on a large scale to niakw maleable iron implements and fixtures, and will soon have have the solid buildings erected and 150 hands employed. Northern men are arriving there every day, as the hotel register shows, and have formed several companies for different enterprises. "Why . did you not . stop at Carters- ville?" said I to a Boston gentleman. Ho smiled and paid : "Well, in the first place we found here everything we wanted, and a good deal more than we expected to see, and it was all so close together we did not care to look farther i ore of the best quality man ganese, ochre, under, i kaoHn, fire clay, limestone sandstone, graphitte and a tplendid wa;er power all within a radius of one mile I have never heard of it and all tl.ese treasures in such abuneance and on the line of a great railroad and in a high rolling, well drained, co.ia try that is obliged to be healthy. Secondly we found that we could purchase property bare rr uch cheaper than properties near to an established tc vn like Cartersyille and'!, lately because our people are Just l'ke your people ana all other peo- pie, they are a little clannian 1 hey wanted to get together and work tpgether and take an even start. It was not; ynr politics that afiected ua for we are about half and half c ir- pelves; Democrats and Repub licans, but we are all tor pro tection. "VYe fear we would not assimilate for awhile and might be misunderstood, but we wisn 10 assimilate and we want your people to join up in our enterprises. We make no complaints. The kindness and hospitality of your people is most aamiraoie ana has stir prised us considering what' vou hav.e suffered by the war. We I - -1 nave xouna open aoors ana a warm welcome everyhere. "Now we have abund capital to begin with and prmg Hundreds or our poepie here and more capital to de velop this .wonderful. We expect to have a mill from New England plan" 3d on Pumpkin Vine Creek within a year. - We expect to have furnaces and paint-mills an? to manufacture firebrick and k o lin aad graphite. There is more graphite hero in One mount ain than has yet been found in all the United States, and I it is of the best quality. We shall grind it up and float itand box it and furnish the sonth with the best lubricator 6he has ever had. If this mount lin was at the north it would be worth a million dollars. Now there is no room for jealousy between Emerson and Car- tersville, for in; less than five years our interests" will all be in common and northern capital will be invested in everything that Bartow county has to sail. Mr. Cleveland's administration was a good one and it goes out with clean hands and a splend id record. We believe, that General Harrison's will be just as good, and even, 'better, for the south, for it will con fidence to northern republicans who wish to come south. Tbre are millions of capital up there that is idle in the ;bank-s drawing nothing to the deprsi tors. It moves cautiously, rat mother np the Poor ill region cot' on it moves surej field so inviting His solid, talk gave me filled me with and there is no as the sooth calm, I ean3st confidence and increased pr'de for our country and for south ern land. I did not know we were so rich. I verilyj believe that in five year's time there will be more . freights supplied to the State road from iAltoona to Adairsville, in Bartoyr county than is now shipped all along the entire- road from the Chattahoochee to the Tennessee line. The State ' road runs thirty-two' miles through our county, and every mile is, rich in minerals. Every hill is full of treasures and every valley rich in agriculural ..capacity. From Emerson. I rode out to the mines and to the mill on the creek and saw the great black hill of graphite, ;?nd not far away a great white hill of kaolin. In another mountain the gray ore was shifting like broken steel - and close by he chrystalized manganese spark led like gems of diamonds No wonder that northern "nen were fascinated and pitched their tents. They toldi me now rapidly the timber had reen cutaway up north in the ast ten years, and now thev ha I to depend on the south with long freights or on Canada with a protective tariff on the way, This reminded me of a letter that was read at. the late forestry congress from an Ohio man who said with fine sarcasm Congress puts a ' protectiye tariff of two dollars a thousand feet on lumber and j thereby excludes Canada from our markets, ana encourages our people to cut down and saw up every tree that win make a two-inch stave, and at the same time offers a1 bounty of 160 acres of public land Jto every settler who will plant ten of it in walnuts, or chestnuts. The eolons at Washington hito us o cut it all -down and jthen hire us to plant some more."' I dined at the Emerson hotel nice, new building of forty rooms, ana everything clean and attractive. These yanVees know i hat to do, first wlien they go to build -up a town, They are slipping up! on us, I tell you. Nice ladies! well man' nered and well dressed, waited on us at the table. I did not gee a darky about the estab lishment. Right there is where the difference"! comes in. The prejudice of caste and oc cupation clings to us stilly and it shows a lack 01 good sense and independence. If a young lady can help her father keep a hotel, she ought to do it. If keep house and make up the beds and wash dishes and fill the lamps and sweep the rooms she ought to do it. If she can make her own dresses and some for the children she ought to do it and be all the more proud of having done her duty as a child. Not long ago an Atlanta girl whom I know said to her companion at High's "I wouldn't notice that girl if I was you she isn't much she's pietty enough but she makes her own clothes. She rigged ud that hat she has on." I wish that all of our girls could be tanght tnat money is of little consequence, compared with virtue and medesty and love . and kindness, . aud that work is no degradation. I have seen many a father bowed down because the ambition of his family to keep up with society kept him on a strain. I do utterly despise the tyranny of society," as it is called, and 1 never attend those fashionable receptions if I can help it. They are all hollow and hypocritical 1 met a sweet, pretty giri in Atlanta, the other day, whose fallen fortunes had forced her to go to service in a commercial establishment. She well edu cated, and never knew a want until recently. Without a murmur or a complaint or a look of sad despair she went to work and maintains heiself. I met her on the street and kissed her, and loved her as a father loves his child. She is from a grand old family, one of the best in the state, and her grandfather was always my friend. I am proud to know and respect some Bartow girls of noble families who are now earning their ' own - living and something more from the use of pen and pencil. I know they are happier than when immer sed in the eiddv whirlpoor of that heartless thing called society. As the train came thundering along I boarded it, and found my friend , Sandford Bell, the venerable conductor of forty years' service, was not calm and serene. He is fond of pos- OUU1 CbV VUlJ V1U1U Ul WUV J j and bo is Dick Hargis, another knight of the rail, and who had a grudge against banford, hired a darky to bring an old gray cat in a sack to the train as it halted at Emerson and to ask Captain Bell if he didn't want to buy a 'possum. The train was just about to pull out and Sanford said : "Is he fat ; what do you ask for him ?" "Twenty-five cents, sir," said the darky, 'an he's fat all over, sir." Sanford tossed him a quarter and told him to hurry up and throw the sack in the baggage car. In a few minutes he found time to inspect his purchase. As to stooped down and . cautiously untied the sack the cat saw the opening and made a spring for liberty. Now Sanford's eyes are getting watery and his spec tacles rather dim, and still thinking it was a very lovely 'possum, he cried out, "Shut the door boys ! shut the door ! don't let that possum get away !" The cat had disappeared behind a trunk, and Sanford would not believer-it was a cat until the boys had caught it and he had rubbed his hand over its furry tail. "If it ain't a cat I'll be dog'd!" said he, and he went forth in solemn silence amidst the peals of laughter from the boys. When he passes Emerson now he can be seen looking all around for that darky, but has not found him. He told me he dident know exactly who con cocted that scheme, but had reason to believe that it was either Dick Hargis or the devil, and there wasent very much difference between them "It was quite a catastrophe," said I. "It was a cat-shore," said he. Bixx, Aep. 0L0M0N AND THE LILLIES Oil Fellow His, Numerous "Wives Should do Better- Attending service not long ago in an elegant church edifice, Where they worsiip God with taste in a highly aesetic manner tte choir began that scriptural poem that compares Solomon with the lilies of field, some what to the former's disad vantage. Although never pos sessing a great admiration for Solomon, nor cons?der:ng him a suitable person to hold up as a shining example before the Yonng Men's Christian Associa tion, still a pang of pity for him was felt when the choir VAGABOND JACK THE LIFE QF THE 1 WARD LOVER. WA r- A Story of a "Shifliess, Ne'er do Well" Beautifully Related. after expressing unbounded admiration for .the liles of the fieli, which it is doubtful if they ever observed very closely began to tell the congregation, through the mouth of the soprano, that '.'Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed," Straightway the soprano was re-en-forced by; the bass, who declared that Solomon was most decidedly and emphati cally not arrayed was not arrayed. ' Then the alto vent ured it as her opinion that Solomon was not arrayed, when the tenor, without a moment s hesitation, sung as if it had been officlallv announced, that he was not arrayed." Then, when the feelings of the con gregation had been harrowed up suiacientiy, ana our sympa thies all aroused for poor Solo mon, whose .numerous wives allowed him to go about in such a fashion even in tha climate, the choir altogether, in a most cool and composed manner, informed us that the idea they intended to convey was that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed "like one of these." These what? So long a time had elapsed since they sung of the lilies that the thread was entirely lost, and by "these" one naturally con cluded that the choir was designated. Arrayed like one of these? We should think not, indeed? Solomon in a Prince Albert or cutaway coat ? Solomon with in eye-glass and mustache, his hair cut Pompa dour? No, most decidedly. Solomon in the very zenith of his glory wa not arrayed like one of .these. Despite the experience of the morning, tne hope still re mained that- in the evening a sacred song might be in a man ner that would not excite our risibilities, or leave the im pression that we had been listening to a case of black mail. But again off started the nimble soprano with the very laudable though rather startling announcement "I will wash." Straightway the alto, not to be outdone, declared she would wash. And the tenor, finding it to be the thing, warbled forth he would wash. Then the deep-chested basso, as though calling up all his fortitude for the plunge, bellowed forth the stern resolve that he also would wash. Next a short interlude on the organ strongly suggestive of the escaping of steam or splash of the waves, after which the choir individu ally and collectively asserted the firm, unshaken resolve that they would wash. At last they solved the problem by stating that they proposed to "wash their hands in innocency, so will the altar of the Lord be compassed." Good Housekeep ing. Vagabond Jack was certainly worthy of his nickname, for ever since he bad arrived at years of discretion be noli known to have any home or any fixed abode, Always wandering over the moun- tain and sleeps anywhere, careless though hia bed were the bare ground. All the caves, grottoes, caverns, and crevasses of Mount Ventouv belonged to him of nature alright, and his sovereignty it need were over fortv leagaes as the crow flies, from the Barron to the borders of Savoy. His real name was John Gravier; 1 .... ' DUt wnere win there be found a peasant in this part ot the countiy who is Known under the name he has derived from his forefathers! Except the cure and the notary pernaps nobody in the village knew who John Gravier Vaa: but as for Jack the Vagabond ?hy, the very youngest cnuaren Knew this name, ana ne nimseif would have scarcely answered to any othr. Being lert an orphan while quite young. Jack was a child ot nature in the fullest sense of the term. Very jealous of his liberty and even somewhat wild, he could not long remain in service in the house of a stranger, and soon broke loose from all guardainship. Active as a monkey, almost proof against fatigue, patient, and temperate, he rapidly became an excellent poach er, and able to give odds to the give odds to the most excellent trappers. As a matter of course he soon had a crow to pluck with the gen5aruies, whose duty it was to keep order in the country; and such fame did he gain in the battles that were now and ' again taking place that it was always to him the hardest blows were attributed. Matters were at this stage, and as yet he had not brought himself nn the notice of the law further than having information lodged against him for breaches of the gamelaws, tavern Quarrels, and such like, when a decisive event took place that placed him in rebellion against the whole social older of his coun try. One day of the conscription Jack did dot appear to draw his lot along with his comrades. The : J i- 1 - ., . mains urew ior mm, aua drew one of the most unlucky numbers. So here was Jack a soldier for seven a last refage on Mount Ventoax; coveys of red p.Jtridees and nocks of plovei j are met with, and the quailregalarly raits cere in its mig rations. A small, .squat, dampy variety of rabbit, which lives ex clusively on tnymn, is abundant. As for the bares of Mount Ventoux they are simply tmequaled, and fully justify the preference accorded to them by gourmets of the first rank. Poacher, refractory, condemned to be ceaselessly on the alert. . his eye and his ear ever ready, Jack could not have desired a more fav ourable theatre for his expoliats. Beloved, esteem for his honesty. Jack could always find some one kind enough to sell his game for nim iu town on the roarket-day. Jf three cornered hat of a gendarme happena to show himself unexpec tedly in a village or in the reigh bourhood of a farm a peculiar cry was instantly beard, which beiDg forthwith taken up and repeated from farm to farm, gradually gave Jack notice of the enemy's presence, lie had certain peculiar ways of knocking at the doors in the night, so that ther would be opened to him at any hour; and at many iarms knew where the key was laid, and could let himself in as if he had been at home. On Sundays he generally attended high mass in the village, and children, posted at all the cross ways, enable honest Jack to perform his devotions in safety. When it was impossible, or be thought it imprudent, to at tend, be remained on the moun- JLVALUELS ACTtfAT. He Would Sell Ear at . a Bargain to Elsself. Great "Owing to ill heath I will ', sell at my residence in town 2y range 18 west, according to goverment survey, one crushed raspberry colored cow, aged I eight years. She is not afraid! u; tiuujj OIHO. DUO is of undaunted courage and ! gives milt frequently. To-a man who does not fear death In any form she would be a great boon. She is very much attached to her home at present by means of a trace chain, but she will be sold to anyone who will agree to treat her right. She Is one-fourth short horn and three-fourth hyena. I will throw in a double barrelled shot eun, which goes with her. In May she generally goes away somewhere for a week or two, and returns, with a tall red calf, with long swabby legs. Her name Is Ecse end I prefer to sell her to a non resident." Bill Nye. OF A WKFK Mr. J. IL Wood killed a bog lMt w v - wmm wst J v tm months old and weighed 4C1 pounds, lie did not eat two babtla of corn in all bat vss fd altofeliitr on traits and slop. This o - inataaoe bows what can be done by Krr people when thy try. Mr. Wood is a bard working fanner ard we bop be will saeceed as be sbocli. Weldra Xeva. MAT IS HAPPENING Jf THE WORLD ARO U2fD US. Condensed Report of the New Gathered From the'.Columna nf our ConlemporaHem, Stale und National. The Farcers . do not Oppress. "Want, to years, at the. beck and call of his officers. He a soldier ! lie to be forced to dwell in towns, to wear a uniform, to obey with a word, to submit to discipline, to slet-p in quarters, and to begin anew every day for seven years the same dreary and monotonous task !' Poor Jack, was this possible ! It would have been something if there i ad been a chance of lighting, as not long be lore; but to rust slowly in a royal barrack, and to be only a show soldier the very thought of it was enough to turn his stomacbe. lie received a notice to join one morning and paid no attention to it. The make, who was aa excel lent man and very tbridof him, took turn aside one Sunda after-mass and said to him, '-Take care, Jack, yoc are getting yourself Into trou tain, where be might have been seen kneeling down at the sound of his bells of bis parish, and join ing in intention the faithful assem bled in the church. This kind of mass he called hill-top mass. 'At first he was so hotly pursued that he had been twice driven into Mannenne, and it was there he learned how to make gunpowder, aud. had first thought of turning smuggler. Afterwards, when it came to be almost tacitly admitted that Jack could only be taken by chance, be used to return there at fixed periods thrice a year, and supplied afmost singV handed the demand for contractu l. good over forty square leagues of couu try. Alter the revolution of July a general amnesty was proclaimed, and Jack accordingly was at per fect liberty to retain to the village and resume bis civic rights. lie did nothing of the kind, however, but remained on the mountain as before. This life of privation, fa tigue, strife, hazard had become a second nature to him, and hence forth he could enjoy no other. He was left alone to live as he pleased. Lie was then from three and thirty to five-and-thirty years of age, and, without any exageration the best-looking fellow in the country, in spite of his sunburned face. More than one girl looked kindly on bim at mass on Sunday, and said to herself, "What a pity that such a handsome fellow should be a vagabond !" Jack was by, no means vain, but what man is mis taken on this subject f Jack could a ;t help feeling secretly nattered by the attention be excited among the women, 1 At this time there lived at a neighboring farm a handsome slip of a girl, who turned all the heads of the young men, and was the ob ject of many longings. Felis, pretty Felise, was looked upon as an heiress, though ber father, Martin (Martinet or Tinet), lived in the most sordid and miserly man ner, lier mother was dead, ana Not only the farmers, but the mecnanies, the- mill men, the stoct men, the merchants and manfacturers and all our people are Interested in having a rail road commission, and we heart! it. n n 11 . jr ouuurao IU9 View 01 OUT contemporary, that the com mission and the law nnder which it acts, should "with bandaged eyes" hold the scales or justice evenly. The farmers 1 do not want to oppress, but to 1 aid our railroads and all other great enterprises for developing the country, but they want and i they demand protection lor' their own interests. Pro- j gressive Farmer. A Zird Hearted I&rierer . i There are 4G members of the next ?gislatore belonging to the Farm s' Alliance. The people of Smithfield' wt see f cm the llerald, have subscribed ; s.000 towards building a new ho tel. We learn that Greenville Is to ve a new brick hotel of splendid p'oportloni to meet the growing :eds of the place. Mr. Ilarry C. Wills, who former ly resided in our pleasant town, was r., irrtcd to Miss Kooa Jutton, la Lurham. a short while sjnee. Durham is to have a two bund r .1 thousand dollar cottoa factory. F we learn from the Plant. Who ojt ;d Durham was "batted V ?. The Winston Sentinel says the iem Hosiery Mill is taraiog oat 5 ) dozen pairs of rocks erery day, w ich retail at 12J cents per pair. The editor of the Franklin Timei st atentiously observes : "Stop blasting of yonr honesty, until yoa have paid what yoa owethe editor eiecia!ly." The Watauga Democrat rather In mates that lean Thomas gingham ' preparing to go for the scalp of s Daniel Dougherty, Postmaster "Boone. The Sew York Star cal at ten lion to the fact that Uere are only thirteen farmers amoeg tie members of the new Slate Assexn- -Wt. though the agr.cultarl dis trict represent over half t e rote ' cast in the State. Tse umber of" farmers elected d win dies Iron year to year, wklle the lawyers, mane facturers aad other classes increase their representation, Ter . contra, the new Leulatare of North Caro lina will have less thaa twenty las-yers. while the farmers will La strong enough to ma'.e things ham uxe a cotton gin. Ex- The Greenville lie Sector learns from the records that there were less mortgages on crops sod more on real estate last year than former ly, aod says: "This looks like credit is getting poorer and instead ol mortgage opon the growing crop to get aupplies, the farmer mortgages his land and boms. We would rejoice did such a state of affairs exist tbat onr farming indas : tries coald be conducted without . the necessity of mortgages. As long as matters go on as at piesent no . great prosperity will exi among the farmsra. The Ileflector hopes the Farm era' Alliance will urge Its members sot to work und er a mortgage the coming year if it ia possible to carry on their works without it, and we believe there are few cases bat what the mortgage coald be dispensed with.n Great Lawyer (in the West) "My client has been declared j guilty of poisoning the xle-'. ceased, but I can at least plead ' for mercy. Remember, you' honor, it was his first offence." Eminent Jurist "True, bu did the prisoner show any mercy to his victim ?" ' "Did he? Did he? Never,' your honor, was there a gentler I murder. It was permeated through and through with mercy. Look at the evidence, t your honor. He administered the poison by mean3 of a bot'le j of ten-year old genuine Old j r Crow whiskey, and let him ; ' drink all he wanted of it." A Payuifr Enterprise. A canning enterprise started near Graham last summer for the purpose of canning fruits and , vegetables. Operations were conducted on a email scale, as a sort of experiment, with a view of doing an exten sive business, if successful in the promises. Something near three thousand cans of apple?, through her she bad inherited some peaches, pears, blackberries acres - of meadow-land over at I uamson, plums, corn and beans ble : r'xere is still tiine1, aiiJ if you your delay I can do fellow the No Free Passes We are gratified to know that a large number of farmers of high character as citizens, have been electee to our State Leg islature. And we venture at this early day to make a few suggestions to them in the in terest of good government Make no pledges involving your free action as a represen tativa, either on men or meas ures, apart from .those you made as a candidate before the people. Come here with free judgments and untied hands. Do not accept a free pass or a free ticket on a railroad under any circumstances. Let every farmer elected to the Legisla ture of 1889 be able to show that he accepted no free rides on railroads. Make no . swaps or trades. Do no log-rolling. Keep in the middle of the road." Don't fall into traps. Raleigh Progressive Farmer. . . ! i A farmer's wife hanged her self on a tree in his garden. He married another wife, and, curiously enough, she, after a few years, hanged herself on the same tree. He married again, and third wife did the same. The farmer wrote sadly to a distant married friend to tell him of the mournful. In reply, his friend wrote ? "There is great virtue clearly in that tree. Send me a cut ting." Friar John Pauli. An Explanation- What is this "nervous troubl with wl.ich so many seem now to afflicted! If you will remember a few years ago the word . Malaria was comparatively unknown, to-day it is as common as any word in the English language yet this word cov ers only the meaning of another word used by our forefathers in times past. So it is with nervous diseases, as they and Malaria are intended to cover whatour grand fathers called Billiousness, and all are caused by troubles" that arise a diseased condition of the Liver which in performing its functions finding it cannot dispose of the bile through the ordinary channel is compelled to pass it off through the system, causing nervous troubles, Malaria, Biillious Fever, etc You who are suffering can well appreciate a cure. We recommend Green's August Flower. Its cures are marvelous, x " A Good Sign. How do the high' tariff men account for the fact that Ohio, noted for her wool production, haa 1 given the Republicans a smaller plurality this year since 1876, and that two of the greatest wool growing districts have elected Democratic and Tariff Reform Congressmen? Durham Plant. "I don't ask for much mama," Baid the jaded tourist, humbly, "but if you if you can give me only a piece of bread "Bread!" shrieked the lady, raising her hand in horror. "Only a piece of bread ! I can give , you some saddle rock oysters, roast turkey with cranberry sauce, and a glass of champagne, . and if that isn't good enough for you, sir, you can o on to the next house. Do you take me for a mil lionaire ?" Chicago Tribune. will. join I bhall justify by a good certificate, nothing more, my poor law is the law." j "Many thanks for jour good-will towards me, sir; but t cannot do it. If I had the misfortune to go I should desert in less than a month, I feel that. I prefer lo remain here a refractory bat not a deser ter, "But, my poor fellow, you will be hunted like a hare; and you cannot hope to keep out of the blues long," "That remains to be seen. I'm not afraid of that, sir.'' How will you manage it." Jack with a smile showed the soles of hia shoes, which were stndded with formidable nails "These have always served me as my sporting license, and I'll wager they will give me the roote too." "Very well," , said the maire,4Tve warned you, and if vou let yourself be takea now, I wash my hands of you." Jack acted as ne had said, and for about five years he with marvel lous success foiled every attempt to catch him, and disconcerted all his enemies' plans with un failing fortune. It mast be recollected that Mont Ventoux seems express ly made to be the scene ot a life such as this. Let the reader pic tare to himself ap immense trun cated cone, an outlier of the main chain of the Alps, rising gradually to the bight of 6500 feet about the level of the eea, Everywhere, from base to summit, over perhaps 100, 000 acres; nothing but bare rock, barrenness and desolation. Large ravin ea of profound depth intersect the giant flanks of the mountain, add form as they run down to the plain narrow but fertile combs, where the flocks find at all times a short sweet herbage. Not a dwel ling, not a cabin, only here aud there some rude hovels of dry atones erected as plac?8 of shelcer by the sbepp&rds. Who could believe and yet it is fact that rather less than a cen tury ago this solitude was covered with maguincenc trees, pines, larches, beeches and oaks I Large game then abounded in tnese inac cessible forests, thf former beauty of which is yet attested by Borne scanty remains-, but the wild goat, the stag, and the bear have long fled before the blind devastation which seemed everywhere fated to attend the French Revolution, and only the wolf, the fox, the martet. have remained faithful to the mountain. . The small game, almost annihilated in the low giounds, find Saintes Marguerites. She was tall, will made, saucy, wish a pair ot eyes fit to ruin her soul, and a per fect darling of a foot. She knew that she was a good match, wore ribbons in her caps, and was quite ready to .flirt with the handsome fellows who used to pay court to her. Jack had known her from the time she .. as a child, and bad dan dled ber on his knees many a time when she was a mere infant, but he had never paid any particular attention to her. since she was grown up and old enough to marry. Ue used fraquently to come to her father's farm, where, as it was sit uated well ap the mountain and about an hour's walk from the vil lage, he was not likely to ' be sur prised, and be had often found food and shelter there. The first time that it; came into his head that Felise was pretty, poor Jack was greatly troubled. It was on a Sunday, the first of May, after ves pers. He was crossing, without thought of evil, the lettle square wbee the plane-trees of the par sonage give so cool a shade, when he was all at once surrounded by a troop of laughing girls begging for the May Queen. "Give us something, Jack!" "Jack, it will bring yoa luck!" "The Holy Virgin will repay yon a hundredfold." i "Look, Jack, if oar queen is not worth it!" Jack looked and was lost. Seated on a raised platform, un. der an arch of verdue and roses, clothed in white, crowned with white flowers and with white flow ers in ber hand, the May Queen sat enthroned liEe a real queen, pro voking by ber sweetest smiles the generosity of the passers-by. Jack, dazzled with admiration and sur prise, stopped short, "Felise V be murmured in a voice altered by emotion. Felise Indeed it was; as, being the prettiest, she had been chosen this year by ber compan ions to represent and impersonate the spring. (TO BE CONTUTTJE.) were put np. Admirable suc cess was attained ia saving the goods put np. The corn, which is the most difficult to preserve, is first class equal to any we have ever used. Then the goods are gotton np in nice style and handsomely labeled, making a very attractive pack age. Graham Gleaner. Past Travelling- Mr. Mills, of the Thomasville Orphanage, told us recently that when he was a student at Wake Forest the trains on the Raleigh & Gaston railroad were 1 so slow that he used to ride on : the outgoing train to the dis- tance of a mile or so - and then , jump off and walk back to the ! Starting point. The superiu-1 r aters are as prolific tendent of the road told Liin acome to our people on one occasion that the old strap iron was to be taken ur and iron bars put down in the place of it, "and then," said the superintendent, "the trains will run so fast that you can't over take them." But Mr. Mills de clared that such a thing conic never be as that a train could outrun hlmGreensboro Work man. The Grayeyari EatHt- The race question in the United States- must be left, for the most part, to settle itself. Artificial schemes for settling it off-hand will never amount to anything. Providence Jour nal Ind. Rep. Mr. Joe Daniels wants to taste a piece of Guilford coun ty rabbit and th?n a piece nf Chatham county rabbit to d-j cide a discussion between thf Chatham Record and Greens boro Workman now going ou about the superiority of thf rabbits of these" respective counties. We cannot help out brethren to decide, but we erz 1 to our brother at Raleigh, if he will procure a Moore county j rabbit foot and keep it in his . pocket -until the legislature meets we will bet our Christ i mas turkey, and we've got one, j that Mr. Daniels will be re elected State Printer, Sanford Express. Dr. Harvey, naar Snow Hill, has en stiickeu with paraiysis and is a very setioui condition. This sal news to his friends and we 4e he may oon recover. A clothing macutactarer in &a tgh employs regularly 250 bands id at certain seasons as many at iO. He makes pants only and ndled 12j,0K pair last year. The week before Christmas some, te broke open the grocery store of F. Jones in Rocky Moant and Ie mo ley and goods to the .iouut of twenty-five dollars. iete is no c'ae to the gailty one. This year's Florida oraoge crop 11 allow ten oranges to every per n in the United States. Send rs rlgLt along and when our 'are ot pineapples and cocoantts rive we will lire on ambrosia for time. While down near Greenville jnst .fore Christmas we noticed that e way bad been cat oat throaeh 9 river low grounds for the rad id. The way is nearly all open . -unjust below Bethel to Green- .le and the grading has began. The Wsrrenton Gazette cbron-v- 'es the fact that Mr. Kurney outhall, 73 years old, made last ar with one horse eleven bales of " tton, each averaging 500 pounds. ow much corn, fodder, bay, peas, r .ts and. wheat did be raise is the q-testion. Trof. W. C. Allen, of Hamilton h?s been elected principal of Vine I .ill Academy at Scotland .Neck, ce Prof. F. IL Mannine resigned. 1'rof. Manry has accepted a position : . the Colored Deaf, Dumb and 15 ind Institution. On Wednesday, Ped 12th, Mr. A. r , Bobbltr, or Littleton, was mar red to Miss Mattie, daughter of -orfleet Cutchin, Esq, of Wbitak- .s, at the residence of the bride'a t .ther, the Rev. Mr. Moore, offictat- 'ug. The good wishes of numerous friends attend them. The following is offered by the ' ouisburg Times as a sure cure for i.og cholera. We give it for what c is worth and there's no harm in t ylng it : Carbolic Acjd (price 10 cents per or.) Dose 2 drops to the hog twice a week in meal or iops. Good for well bogs also. The Elizabeth City Economist . ays : "We understand that sixty. ive boxes of fish went over the (ailroad on Saturday morninz. I'hey were brought np from the ower sounds. This is good. Oar a eoarce of 4 our fields f agricultural products. The New Berne Journal says: On "bristmas day Mr. Angnstas iiggs, h young man living on Bear reek, Onslow county, was in the .ct of firing a gun, the gun burst- d and blew bis brains oat, killing lim instautly. Mr. Riggs was boat twenty years old and was mployed on the farm with Mr. .'.obert Fret&waur. The Richmond & Danville Rail. oad company nave organ pre ceding in the Federal Court in taleigh to ebjoin the laying and Election or a tax by the State ipon their rolling stock, claiming hat this property is not liable to .txation in this State as it is al eady taxed in other State and hey are raerelv operating it upon heir lines here. E3W TZICZZS ESS. Pciistses. "Klsa is a conjunction because it connects. It's a verb becarse it signifies to act and be acted ' upon. It's a preposition, be cause it shows that the person kissed is no relation. It's an interjection at least it sounds like one, and is a pronoun, be cause she always stands for the noun. It is also a noun, be cause it is the oscuiatory action both co jura on and proper second person necessary. Plural number, because there are ' always more than one. In gender, masculine and femin ine mixed. - Frequently the case, and is govern al by circum stances and light, according to rule first. "If he smite thee on one cheek, turn the other also. It should always begin with a capital letter, be often repeated continued as long as possible, and ended with a period." Yam, lam. T. C. Teacher. dirt ri Salter :ai- We need better roads. Jso body will dispute tl ' prop osition. Nobodv whu travels over our public highway dur ing the winter season is to blind and unobserving as not to pronounce our roads exe crable. A team cannot draw half a load, and it is done at a fearful strain upon the horses and wagon. Our eystera of working the roads is a failure. There is something radically wrong in It. It does not accom plish the purpose. It hardly keeps our roads passable, and the burden is not borne by our citizens In just proportion. AshevUle Citizen. . , Prcper Ecr:i taWczo It would be of infinite help to a young mac who really desires to secure a pleasing mariner and address in his bearing to ward women to look apon him self with their eyesfor awhile.' He would find first that he cannot bo too unfailing in re epect toward a young woman. Avoid anything and everything in speech and action that approaches a flippant family laxity. The true woman resents this, as the French say, to the tip of her naibWKIty" in the New York Times. TaijalTtwrpapcr. An exchange asks: "What is home without a newspaper?" to which a brother editor replies. 'It Is a place where old hats are stalled into the window sash, where the children are - like pigs, the house-wife an aboriginal savage, and the hus band with a panaroma of the Dismal Swamp painted on his shirt bosom with tobacco juice.' T&Kft U h Tn&s. wa4 Tbe Lnmberton Robesonian aavs: .We have recently beard that Mr. I Abraham Lincoln, President of tbe i Jnited States, was bora ia II ay vood (now Swain) county. In this .State. There is a bit of bis tor v i nd romance attached to it, which . ells bow be cine "to bail from Kentucky aod bow be got tbe name dLiacolo, which, we are anared, authentic. "Glorious old 2aih" is coming steadily to tbe troot. With ter rich lands, solid men and beautiful omen who can wonder. In this connection tbe tollowing from tbe rcnnant I tn th nnint "Th Mann Arringfoa 1 running stead- A Sweet Trii. The Tlsit of Senators Quay and Cameron to Mahone, in Virginia to take precaution against fraud in the Congres sional returns mn;t surges' to the shrewd old negroes of that State the policy of setting a fox. a coon and a weassel to fraard the hencoop." ew lork World. Sometimes it is hard to tell whether a man is firm in prin ciple or simply obstinate, but the man himself never express es any doubt. UPnr want nf A nait a fchA loet; for want of a shoe! a borse wai , ''J on cood ore with the most aatls- lostjforwantofahorse.ariderwas ,rjenits. The property u iootv" Sever neglect things. The i '"S td'ly developed and tbe fust signs of pneumonia and con- ip Wl", '"CM' 7 sumption can positively be checked ! aontb as the lower workings show Ihv Dr.-Acker'a Encltah Remedr 1 steady increase In the valoe of .7 " 1 tV. nrm n for Consumption. 1 Itrni Esapt. CoL W. K. 5elon, of Brootljo, came borne one evening, feeling a peculiar tightness in tbe chest, lie lore retiring, be tried to draw a long brealh but foend tt almott im possible. He soffered Lmi days from poeanomia, aad tte Aoc;cra ave bim np. Dr. Ackpr Lugl-h Remedy lor OonanmrUon aavej bim and be Is veil to-day.